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tial palace in Santiago de Chile, Juan Carlos
Miranda Duarte is busy creating his own fully
featured DX system. His professional back-
ground as a metal worker certainly is an asset
for this job. Originally coming from Viña del
Mar, a town some 120 km south of Santiago,
Juan Carlos tells the story of how he became
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 Juan Carlos uses the roof to

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set up his dishes in Santiago. In
the distance, with the Cordilleras
mountains as a backdrop, you can
see the transmission tower of Chilean
telecom company ENTEL.

hold of a universal LNB and all of a sudden

all his troubles were forgotten: HISPASAT
came in brilliantly and the DX virus had
taken complete control over him.
There hardly are any specialist shops for
satellite components in Chile. This leaves
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only flea markets as sources for electri-
cal components. In the course of time
Arabic ‫ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺑﻴﺔ‬ www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/ara/chile.pdf Juan Carlos found more dishes after a lot
Indonesian Indonesia www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/bid/chile.pdf
Bulgarian Български www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/bul/chile.pdf of driving around and browsing through
Czech Česky www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/ces/chile.pdf all the different markets. Today, he is the
German Deutsch www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/deu/chile.pdf proud owner of four Ku band dishes and
English English www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/eng/chile.pdf
Spanish Español www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/esp/chile.pdf currently is in the process of setting up his
Farsi ‫ﻓﺎﺭﺳﻲ‬ www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/far/chile.pdf first C band antenna. He also operates four
French Français www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/fra/chile.pdf
Greek Ελληνικά www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/hel/chile.pdf receivers by now as well as a PC card.
Croatian Hrvatski www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/hrv/chile.pdf “My favourite radio stations are RFI
Italian Italiano www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/ita/chile.pdf
Hungarian Magyar www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/mag/chile.pdf
Canal de Música from France and Radio 3
Mandarin 中文 www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/man/chile.pdf from Spain, both of which are transmitted
Dutch Nederlands www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/ned/chile.pdf on HISPASAT, as well as Radio Enciclope-
Polish Polski www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/pol/chile.pdf
Portuguese Português www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/por/chile.pdf dia from Cuba,” explains Juan Carlos.
Romanian Românesc www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/rom/chile.pdf Among the TV channels he can now
Russian Русский www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/rus/chile.pdf
Swedish Svenska www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/sve/chile.pdf receive, he particularly likes the German
Turkish Türkçe www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-0807/tur/chile.pdf DW TV and as of recently also Radio Ned-
erland on TELSTAR 12: “I don’t understand
Dutch,” he says, “but I enjoy this channel
nonetheless.” On GALAXY he likes Canal
7 from Argentina and TV Montecarlo from
“About a year ago I stumbled across stations from around the globe. Uruguay. The TV channels from Cuba and
TELE-satellite while surfing the Internet. It A friend offered him a used satellite TV Canarias from Spain also count among
was Ingo Salomon’s giant antenna in South receiver which he bought right away, and his favourites. “In the evening I switch my
Africa that immediately caught my atten- he also managed to quickly source a used receiver to Belgian radio on TELSTAR 12.
tion.” But frankly, Juan Carlos showed a dish complete with LNB. He put together The good music on this station then wakes
certain predisposition even as a youth all components and desperately tried to me up again the next morning,” Juan
when he was a dedicated listener to short- catch a signal – to no avail. Had he bought describes his listening habits.
wave radio which he picked up with an old a defective receiver? Was it the LNB’s fault? Currently Juan Carlos is in the process of
Telefunken tube radio. No wonder, then, What about the dish alignment? Or did he expanding his equipment. There is enough
that he caught the virus again as soon as use wrong or incomplete parameters to space available, but getting hold of all the
he had read the TELE-satellite story: rather set up his equipment? Weeks went by, but components is the tricky part. However,
than being limited to pay TV channels from Juan Carlos never lost his patience. once the DX virus has a grip on somebody,
his own country he wanted to receive FTA There came a day when he could get all obstacles can be overcome.

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